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What a summer it is turning out to be for the romantics. First, David McGoldrick decided to head back to his boyhood club Notts County after leaving Derby and now Aaron Ramsey is set to rejoin Cardiff City, the club he left as a teenager for Arsenal. Theirs is a well-trodden path with mixed results for brave boys coming home. If Ramsey wants to review the history of such transactions, we have had an admittedly minor delve through the archive to see how others have done by going home. From Robbie Fowler to Billy Sharp, completing the journey, however circuitous, can be a appealing notion … but the realities can be different.
Liverpool charging £75 for a replica shirt (yesterday’s Football Daily)? Ha, amateurs. Tottenham are charging a princely £125 for an ‘elite home shirt’ and £80 for a ‘stadium home shirt’. I’m sure there’s some subtle difference, but I can’t see it on a quick glance at the club shop. Differences from the previous design? Well. it’s all white, has the badge, Nike logo and ‘AIA’ in red, all very similar to last year, but it has blue cuffs, which I think is a change. The global price of polyester must be astronomical” – Adrian Riley.
Re: Brentford adapting their kit to have red and white stripes with a stronger presence of black (yesterday’s Football Daily) could be a nod to De Stijl, a Dutch art movement based around the power colours of black and white plus primary colours such as red. De Stijl was the idea behind the White Stripes, who featured black, white and red on their artwork. There may also be a clever reference to the material of Brentford’s shirts, as De Stijl is also known as Neoplasticism. Anyone know of any other tenuous art references in footie kits?” – Bernard Clark.
On the subject of kit launches, the new Kilmarnock away strip is inspired by penicillin” – John Brady.
If Football Daily wants to jump in on the fad that clubs are doing with their traditional-yet-modern kits, it could just republish missives/drivel from its formative days. Then again, each daily missive seems to be a rehashing of drivel” – Nigel Assam.
Does Phil Hawkins (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) not understand that if all the tired old jokes and lazy stereotypes were removed from Football Daily, all that remained would be links to Big Website articles?” – Michael Hann.
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